[Kayla]

Kelly, i might rally to move you out of business/marketing here and into modifications. nice write up

[lyn76]

Whew! Talk about informative. Thanks!!

[kelly]

Ta!

[decor_girl]

Originally Posted by catlike

I may potentially have 4" leftover at the end of my run of lower cabinets. Given I have a small kitchen (~80 sq ft) and am trying everything outside of bending the laws of physics to fit as much as possible, are there any good ideas for a 4" gap? I've seen a suggestion for a spice rack, but I'm not too keen on putting spices next to a dishwasher (humidity). The search function doesn't seem to recognize 4" when i do a search, so it's not providing me with the matches I hoped it would.

Thanks!

Hi,

you could try the spice rack, but use them for tinned goods.

You could also use the space as a vine rack....
When you would use it as a vine rack, you could extend it above the countertop up to the ceiling.

If you just put in shelves, you could roll up your dish towels and store them there...

My mother's got quite huge boards for baking cookies. She'd use such a space for them to be put out of the way.

I think it depends a bit on what you got in your kitchen that needs its place to be stored.....

I hope this may help you, even since I'm from Germany and my English isn't that good:-)

regards
decor_girl

[imagineblueskies]

I had a 4" gap in the kitchen we just today finished (photos coming). I made it into 2 open shelves with the top shelf about 4" from the countertop bottom for rolled up towel storage and the bottom part for cutting boards stacked on their side. I've been using it for several days now and LOVE my gap. If I had known how useful it would be, I'd have planned it in the first place!

[decor_girl]

waiting for photos....

[imagineblueskies]

OK - got it. Here's a pic of what I did with my gap. I'm getting the rest of the pix together of the finished kitchen, and should be posting them shortly.

[Tigratrus]

Hey if you're going to upload a bunch of pictures, put them in the gallery? We're in the home stretch of getting the old Progress Blogs forum revamped as "Project Journals" tm and it'll be a much better way to do before and after kinds of threads .

We're hoping to get the last kinks out of the image sets system tonitgh

James

[kelly]

That is one good looking gap! Great work- very finished and planned looking. Way to go!

[alphaschnitz]

Originally Posted by bluedenim

ok I am dealing with something similar in my design.
I will have a 6 inch space on my upper cabinets which I am thinking instead of putting in a filler change it to some wine storage but nothing in Ikea is that narrow.
I am using the horizontal metal and glass cabinets on that run.
I can not find anything that will work unless maybe I go to a different manufacturer and order something
I was thinking maybe some sort of stainless box with shelving for wine bottles but have no idea where to get something like this....

so I am watching this thread for ideas.

Maybe mount a couple of VURM metal wine racks to either the wall, or the side of the cabinet? It wouldn't fill the gap completely/seamlessly but it will fill the space attractively & give you wine (or rolled tea towel) storage.

OR, since your gap only affects the upper cabinets, is it possible to slide the uppers 6" over to fill that gap, and then maybe mount the VURMs on the other side of the cabinet run (assuming other side is "open", not abutting another wall of course...).